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Xara Graphic Studio Pro 4, Windows

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Now you can buy Xara's most popular products in one irresistible bundle. Xara Graphic Studio Pro contains Xara Xtreme Pro 4, Xara3D 6 and Webstyle 4.

Features

An integrated, ultra-fast, non-destructive photo tool
New! Photo tool offers instantaneous editing for even huge photos. All operations are non-destructive, meaning the original image is not affected and all edits are object orientated and undoable. This also means edits like this take practically no file space and so allows ultra compact lossless files.
Ultra-fast, live & interactive Enhance (brightness, sharpness, saturation etc)
Levels (histogram, color correction and more)
Interactive crop. Again this is non-destructive so you can adjust or un-crop images at any time.
An automatic panorama maker photo-stitching feature.
The world's fastest, highest quality vector 3D extrude tool: Xara3D has been integrated so you can now extrude objects in 3D. This provides industry leading speed, usability and quality of 3D rendering compared with any other drawing package. It provides live on-canvas 3D dragging and extrude, 3 colored lights than can be dragged around in real-time, and Xara's renowned high quality 3D rendering.
Major text tool improvements, including real-time 'liquid' text flow around shapes:A new text repel feature allows text to flow around shapes and photos. As you'd expect from Xara this provides super-fast text re-formatting allowing live and interactive flow of text as you drag the text objects
New! live reformatting while resizing text columns and frames
Text underline
New! 'Website creation' feature. Build complete multi-page websites, with the world's most advanced WYSIWYG page layout controls: Many professional graphic designers already use Xara as their primary web graphics tool. Now it can save complete HTML web pages (using XHTML and CSS standards) and using layers it is easy to add mouseover effects and even add pop-ups. The advantage of using Xtreme to create web pages is that you get almost complete freedom to position graphics and text anywhere on the page � including semi-transparent graphics and even rotated text - things which would be difficult or impossible with normal web authoring tools. Plus the multi-page feature can be used to create complete multi-page websites. And Xtreme creates all the HTML for you.
New! Super-high quality vector and photo rendering
New! Simplified Quality Control provides five quality steps: Outline only. This is now fully anti-aliased for higher quality screen display; Outline with blend steps, Full color (no anti-aliasing); High Quality (full anti-aliasing. Same as previous top quality. Provides image smoothing); Very high quality (new higher quality, industry best anti-aliasing. New bi-cubic photo display considerably improves the quality of scaled down photos).
Support for multi-core processors - the world's fastest graphics program is now even faster! Xara always had by far the highest performing graphics rendering engine, up to ten times faster than Adobe. Now with support for multi-core processors it's even faster. Tests show approximate speed gains of 40% for dual core processors with large screen images and greater gains with more cores. Large full screen photos can render up to 75% faster on a dual core processor.
Improved color picking and editing including an enhanced eye dropper color picker on the color line
You can now use the eye-dropper color picker directly without having the color editor on screen.
The Color line now indicates the color under the eye-dropper as you're dragging around, highlighting the named or palette color.
New! Live color values shown next to the eye-dropper as you move over objects, showing not just the RGB color but the correct named color and color model of the object under the pointer. e.g. whether it's a spot, Pantone, CMYK or RGB color, and its value.
The current fill and line colors are now indicated on the color line even if they are palette colors, not just named colors.
The Name Gallery now shows used palette colors and edited colors, not just named colors.
Flexible new Selector tool options
New! 'Scribble select' feature allows you to select objects by just drawing a freehand line over the page - all objects that the line touches are added to the selection.
New! Option for marquee select provides an Adobe-like selection so that any objects that the marquee rectangle touches are selected. An alternative option selects only those objects entirely inside the marquee rectangle.
Selection has been made live - objects are selected as you drag, rather than only when you let go. This mkes it easier to know whether objects are or are not selected as you drag, rather than waiting until you let go of the mouse.
New! and improved import and export of industry standard graphics formats: This includes: Improved PDF import; New XPS import; New JPEG 2000 import / export and some other minor formats; HD Photo import. This is a new high quality photo format from Microsoft, also known as Windows Media Photo.
Improved international font and text (Unicode) handling
Improved Unicode support for foreign language alphabets, such as Chinese.
New! Hierarchical Font menu with WYSIWYG font display
New! WYSIWYG Font menu, now showing fonts grouped in families, showing full length font names and rendered in the corresponding font (high quality anti-aliased, compare with Word), so making it much easier to preview a font before selection. This is a hierarchical menu, so it's more compact and shows all variants of each family in a sub-menu.
Live in-document font preview and live font size selection
Live Font Preview. As you traverse the font menu, the selected text in the document is updated. Similarly there is now a live font size preview, and a new interactive font size pop-up slider for fast, live, fine grained text size control.
New! Nearly 40 new Live Effects plug-ins, including Art, Color, Deformation, Distortion, Sharpen & Soften filters.
New! Fully customizable templates including HTML web pages
New! Top quality editable templates have been added, including more brochures / flyers, newsletters and new categories such as web pages and scrapbooking.
New! Free copy of Pan Studio, an advanced version of the panorama photo stitching feature: Automatic stitching of photos to create a panorama; ability to stitch together any number of images; Automatic detection of overlap and join positions; Automatic calculation of focal length; Adjustment of pictures to reduce fish-eye or focal length distortions; Seamless blending to remove dramatic color changes in the sky, for example; Advanced control over cropping, sharpening and enhancing of the resulting stitched image; Create web based 360 degree panoramas, perfect for showing off your restaurant interior and that type of thing. The best bit is that it's utterly simple to use. Import your pictures, position them in the correct left to right order and then just click the Panorama button for them to be automatically stitched together.
Flash export is now automatically clipped to page size: So, for example, if you want to create a banner ad at 468x60, you can set the page size to 468x60 and all animations on or around the page will be clipped to that page size.
New! Quick & easy photo optimization option: A new optimize photo / bitmap feature to reduce resolution and convert images to embedded JPEGs (to make designs smaller and photo operations faster).
New! Key shortcut option in the Utilities menu offers an easier, direct way to configure key shortcuts. Shortcut configurations can be saved and loaded, so for example you can share shortcut configurations with other Xtreme users.
Improved shape intersection: Path clipping has been improved, so Combine Shapes operations are now more accurate.
Improved photo handling including a new 'photo document'
Shortcut key configuration
Color Separation Support
PANTONE� color support
PDF/X export
XPS Support
Multi-core processors
HD Photo import
Xara 3D6
Creating and Importing:Text headings can use any TrueType font. Nine fonts are included in the trial download and there are 60 on the CD. Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away, you'll create your first heading in seconds!
Full text control, including alignment, sub- & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections
Instant access to full character sets from within the text dialog
Create non-text headings by importing 2D graphics as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) or CorelXARA/Webster files (XAR and WEB) and extruding the outlines
An automatic design-making tool instantly converts any text heading into a button, board or board with holes
Full anti-aliasing for the best possible on-screen display quality.
Editing and Applying Special Effects:Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth - simply click and drag on the image
Unlimited undo makes experimentation easy
Real-time 3D positioning around three axes by simply dragging the image on screen
Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts, textures, animation and text settings applied
The Style Picker allows you to easily grab any or all of the settings of one image and apply them to another
A total of 27 different bevel types with adjustable bevel size -
Interactive, easy-to-use lighting controls (three adjustable light arrows which can be dragged on-screen)
Flexible interactive controls over the color and/or texture of every part of the image, and the background
A total of 37 textures are included in the download, and there are 400+ on the CD-ROM you receive when you purchase. You can also import your own GIF or PNG files
Textures can be scaled, rotated and colored
Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow
Images can be matte or shiny
Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to easily alter the shadow blur, transparency and color
Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results.
Animation:Images can be animated in many different ways such as Rotate, Fade, Pulsate, Step, Fade and Swing, using a simple interface
The Animation Picker lets you easily copy the animation settings of one image to another.
Apply different animations to individual characters or sections of text
Step-through multi-page animations of different images
The number of frames in a sequence, the rotation direction, the speed, pause and number of loops can all be selected through simple controls
An animation time line allows you to step through each frame, pause and export a single frame
Lights and text can be rotated separately
Great for creating animated buttons.
Outputs JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), ICO (icon), CUR (cursor), animated GIF, AVI and SWF (vector and bitmap)
Any 3D animation can also be exported as a screensaver
Optional background transparency
Color reduction and palette-optimization for maximum quality with the smallest file size, ideal for web pages and